In the website article, “public speaking: transitions,” the author encourages the speaker of a speech to use which kind of transitions? ok. when speaking in public i'll admit, some thought should be given to transition, especially with older, more traditional audiences, and when you have a very high content presentation. but you don't have to be a trite, snoozer by saying things like, . . speaking of bananas. i'm now going to talk about bananas. you could, however, do a segue like that and then make fun of yourself for doing it by saying something like, don't you think that transition was really smooth? transitions are one of the places where you could plan to use some humor. this works well with technical audiences because they won't feel you are wasting their time. since, in their minds, you are required to do a transition anyway, it's ok if it's funny. a. smooth b. bumpy c. sharp d. exciting